Re: RE : Re: RE : RARA-AVIS: Memento

From: funkmasterj@runbox.com
Date: 25 Feb 2008


----- Start Original Message ----- Sent: Fri, 15 Feb 2008 11:17:26 -0500 From: "Nathan Cain" < IndieCrime@gmail.com> To: rara-avis-l@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: RE : Re: RE : RARA-AVIS: Memento

> I said trying. I didn't say succeeding.
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> On Fri, Feb 15, 2008 at 10:30 AM, < BaxDeal@aol.com> wrote:
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> > In a message dated 2/15/08 7:12:10 AM, IndieCrime@gmail.com writes:
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> > > I think where Irreversible failed was with the characters. I didn't
> > > really care about them. If the events had been presented in
> > > chronological order it would have been completely uninteresting. Guy
> > > Pearce's character in Memento, on the other hand, was sympathetic. I
> > > felt for his situation and his problems, and I think the movie was
> > > much more successful at driving home the point of the pointlessness of
> > > revenge, which was theme I think both films were trying to make.
> > >
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> > I don't glean that point from Irreversible at all. in fact the only point I
> > get is that rape isn't sexy, it's horrible. and because the rest of the
> > film just seems to be an exercise in style, it even calls that point into
> > question. I mean... horrific rape as style? how pretentious is that?
> >
American Psycho was about murder as means of expressing individuality.

Jordan

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